Word: oprahism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...group huddled together consoling one another with affirmations. Even though my learning curve was taking a nosedive, standing there complimenting and being complimented reminded me of something more worthwhile to remember than the backward swizzle: how kind people can be. At the risk of sounding a little too Oprah, the loveliest thing about the lessons wasn't the halfhearted compliments of the instructors. It was the shared glances of my bumbling fellow students--the solidarity of the incompetent. Don't knock it. I received the first nonironic "You go, girl!" of my life, and so I went, on bended knee...
...Campaigning on Oprah b. Making Oprah wish Al Haig was still campaigning c. The winner of O magazine's "What I Like About Me" essay contest d. Flogging a book...
Mike Myers, Oprah Winfrey, Robin Williams, Sean Connery, Steve Martin, Steven Spielberg, Tom Green and Tom Hanks were also on the list...
...Told Oprah he has got used to life on his ranch b) Gave Charlie's Angels "Four Homicidal Stars" c) Claimed "paid Western spies" caused his ouster...
...blackflies of Skaneateles. She was the first up and last to bed, handshaking her way through county fairs and college campuses, just plain outworking her opponent. And as much as yuppie women may have been skeptical of Hillary's motives, upstate women of a certain age greeted her like Oprah, an avatar of spiritual renewal touching down in Poughkeepsie. They turned out for her, stayed afterward, lined up for autographs. Her first victory lap began upstate in Albany, Rochester and Syracuse...